Question:
Does anyone know that "Three Men and a Baby" movie urban legend?
Alex
2008-07-18 19:56:38 UTC
Three Men and a Baby movie came up a few days back and couldnt help to think about the this issue that came up I heard way back about a certain boy that died on the set when it was his home.
You can see his appearance behind curtains when one of the 3 mens mother comes by to visit baby and takes baby to another room. Personally, I think it's Ted Danson's picture cutout in the background but heard it was boy's spirit.
Course, thought it was silly at time, just wondered if anyone heard about this as well and thoughts on it.:-)
Seven answers:
MystMoonstruck
2008-07-18 20:02:51 UTC
I recall when that was making its rounds originally. I worked in a newspaper office, and the press service sent the story along with a print of the particular frame people claimed showed the ghost of a boy. It was some sort of reflection or other such mundane explanation; I don't recall the particulars, as that was so long ago.



From Wikipedia: **SPOILERS of URBAN LEGEND**

In the final cut of the movie, there is a scene, just over an hour into the film, in which Jack Holden (Ted Danson) and his mother (Celeste Holm) walk through the house with the baby. As they do so, they pass a background window on the lefthand side of the screen, and a black outline that appears to resemble a rifle pointed down can be seen behind the curtains. As the characters walk back past the window 40 seconds later, a human figure can be seen in that window. A persistent urban legend began circulating August 1990 (shortly before the film's sequel, Three Men and a Little Lady, premiered) that this was the ghost of a boy who had been killed in the house where the movie was filmed. The most common version of this rumor was that a nine-year-old boy committed suicide with a shotgun there, which is inspired by the earlier shape. This notion was discussed on the first episode of TV Land: Myths and Legends in January 2007 and was referenced on an episode of Family Guy, on "Hollywood Babylon", and on an episode of the TV show Supernatural. A variation of the legend states that the ghost was Eric Clapton's son Conor, who died of a fall from a 53rd story window in 1991, over three years after the movie was released. The variation states that Clapton allowed the movie to be filmed in his New York City condominium.

However, according to Snopes.com, a website dedicated to investigating urban legends, the figure is a cardboard cutout "standee" of Jack, wearing a tuxedo and top hat, that was left on the set. This prop was created as part of the storyline, in which Jack, an actor, appears in a dog food commercial, but this portion of the story was cut from the final version of the film. The standee does show up later in the film, however, when Jack stands next to it as the baby's mother comes to reclaim her child. Snopes contends that the figure in the first scene looks smaller from its appearance in the latter scene because of the distance and angle of the shot, and because the curtains obscure its outstretched arms. As for the contention that a boy died in the house, all the indoor scenes in the film were shot on a Toronto soundstage, and no residential dwellings were used for interior filming
anonymous
2008-07-18 20:03:37 UTC
it is rumored to be the spirit of a young boy but I like you Belize it was a cardboard cut out of ted danson too I heard that on some show or something
anonymous
2008-07-18 20:58:09 UTC
I think it was just a poster of Ted Danson. Like a card board cut out thing.
Nickk
2008-07-18 20:01:45 UTC
i heard it was a ted danson cut out to
andrew_mudd
2008-07-18 20:03:47 UTC
It is a cardboard standee. This urban legend is old and has been debunked many, many times. A simple Google search would have done it for you. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but I'm slightly drunk-ish.
*Mandi*
2008-07-18 20:31:36 UTC
Heard it-just a carboard cut out.
Aurora
2008-07-19 03:38:10 UTC
A friend of mine mentioned it to me at the time, the shotgun and everything... It's been debunked on snopes.com:



http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/3menbaby.asp


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